Sung Hoon

For the name, see Sung-hoon (name).
This is a Korean name; the family name is Bang.
Sung Hoon
Born Bang Sung-hoon
(1983-02-14) February 14, 1983
Nam District, Daegu, South Korea
Education Yong In University
Social and Physical Education
Occupation Actor
Years active 2011-present
Korean name
Hangul 성훈
Revised Romanization Seong Hun
McCune–Reischauer Sŏng Hun
Birth name
Hangul 방성훈
Revised Romanization Bang Seong-hun
McCune–Reischauer Pang Sŏng-hun

Sung Hoon (born Bang Sung-hoon on February 14, 1983) is a South Korean actor.[1][2] Sung Hoon was a member of the national swim team and specialized in the butterfly. He swam on the team for 14 years but had to quit because of a spinal injury, he decided to take a break from swimming and enlisted in the military, but the same injury sent him home early. Sung Hoon debuted as an actor in 2011 with New Tales of Gisaeng without any modeling or acting experience, he decided to audition for it and landed the lead role.[3]

Career

Sung Hoon's breakthrough role in New Tales of Gisaeng he portrayed a character of an arrogant chaebol Ah Da Moo who was excellent in sports, business, women and popularity. His acting in this drama earned him an SBS Acting award for the Best New Actor in 2011.

In 2012 he acted in his first Chinese drama The Bodygaurd. His character was of a Security chief named Guo Xu. The same year he acted in Faith as Chun Eum-ja, a villainous white-haired man with a deadly flute. Later that year he was cast in the drama The Birth of a Family as a businessman named Han Ji-hoon. He was once again cast as a lead character, a chaebol named Kang Moo Yool in 2013 in the drama Passionate Love. In 2014, Sung Hoon acted in a web drama 6 Persons Room. His character Min Soo, a successful businessman and womaniser until he suffers an injury and finds himself in a hospital surrounded by strange patients.[4]

His popularity arose with the mini-series in 2015 Noble, My Love, which he played yet another chaebol named Lee Kang Hoon who is a CEO of world's largest company D.O.L's Korean branch. One day, he is kidnapped and dramatically escapes from the bad guys but he bleeds so much that he blackouts in front of one animal hospital. Yoon Seo, a veterinarian, finds him and cures him. This fame led him to be chosen to his next project Oh My Venus where he plays a professional boxer Jang Joon-sung trained by John Kim (played by So Ji-sub), his alias is "Korean Snake." He used to be an orphan but John Kim gladly took him as his student and trained him to become a successful boxer.[5]

Sung Hoon is also a talented musical Disc jockey. He is conducting his DJ activities under the name ROI. In June 2015, Sung showcased his DJ skills at Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. Same year in August Sung performed in Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.[6]

In 2016 Sung Hoon returns to Korea's small screen with KBS's weekend drama Five Enough. He plays the character Kim Sang-min, a model turned professional golfer and Yeon-tae's (played by Shin Hye-sun) love interest.

Sung Hoon was confirmed to cast in the film "Come Back to Busan Port" (literal title). He is playing younger brother Tae-Soon. His older twin brother is played by Lee Jung-jin. The twins were separated at an early age. The younger brother is now the number two guy for a crime gang and the older brother is a detective. Filming began in June, 2016 in Busan.[7]

In November 2016, Sung Hoon landed on a leading role in the drama "My Secret Romance" which he agreed to play yet another a second-generation chaebol, Jin-wook. The drama is to be pre-produced and will air in the first half of 2017.

Filmography

Television series

Year Title Role Network
2011 New Tales of Gisaeng Ah Da-mo SBS
2012 The Bodyguard Guo Xu CCTV
Faith Chun Eum-ja SBS
The Birth of a Family Han Ji-hoon SBS
2013 Passionate Love Kang Moo-yeol SBS
2014 6 Persons Room Min-soo KOSHA's webseries
2015 Noble, My Love Lee Kang-hoon Naver TV Cast
Oh My Venus Jang Joon-sung KBS2
2016 Five Children Kim Sang-min KBS2
2017 My Secret Romance (literal title) Cha Jin-Wook TBA

Films

Year Title Role
2016 Come Back to Busan Port(Literal Title) Tae-Soon

Reality and variety shows

Year Title Network Appearance Note
2011 Home Sweet Home (Dalgona) SBS Ep 13 New Tales of Gisaeng Special
2012 Let's Go! Dream Team Season 2 KBS2 Ep 124 Won gold medal (individual race)
Strong Heart SBS Ep 92-93
2015 Our Neighborhood Arts and Physical Education KBS2 Ep 113-124 9th sport, Swimming!
2016 Happy Together KBS2 Ep 455
Knowing Bros JTBC Episode 39
Running Man SBS Episode 317
My Ear's Candy TVN with Heo Youngji

Musical theater

Year Title Role Note
2014 Summer Snow Dr Yoonjae musical debut

Music video appearances

Year Title Singer Album Source
2009 Because I Love You (사랑하기 때문에) White Brown single video
2010 Promise Me (약속해줄래) Oh Yun Hye (오윤혜) ft. Red Roc (레드락) Promise Me video
2013 Just the Two of Us (둘이서 한잔해) Davichi Mystic Ballad video
2015 Sunlight Crayon Pop's Geummi ft. Sung Hoon 6 Persons Room video
2016 CLIMAX (클라이막스) Nop.K (Feat. Hoon.J) CLIMAX video

Discography

Year Song title Album Notes
2015 Sunlight 6 Persons Room OST duet with Geummi
Has It Started? (시작인가요)
Noble, My Love OST
 duet with Kim Jae-kyung
Has It Started? (시작인가요) Solo version
Nothing is Easy Solo version

Awards

Year Award Category Nominated work Result
2011 20th SBS Drama Awards New Star Award New Tales of Gisaeng Won
2016 5th APAN Star Awards Best actor in a Serial Drama (Excellence Award) Five Children Nominated
1st Asia Artist Awards Best Choice Award Won

References

  1. ↑ "ONE Exclusive Interview - Sung Hoon". ONE TV ASIA. 28 March 2013. Retrieved 2013-08-02.
  2. ↑ Ho, Stewart (30 July 2012). "Actor Sung Hoon Sheds 5kg for Faith Role". enewsWorld. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
  3. ↑ Vivi (29 September 2015). "8 Korean actors you didn't know were sports stars". DramaFever. Retrieved 2016-08-31.
  4. ↑ Ceki91 (18 October 2015). "A Stalker's Guide to Sung Hoon". MyDramaList. Retrieved 2016-08-31.
  5. ↑ Vivi (9 October 2015). "Sung Hoon takes second lead in Oh My Venus as Jo Eun Ji, Henry, and Jung Gyu Woon also confirm roles". DramaFever. Retrieved 2016-08-31.
  6. ↑ Yoon, Sarah (12 June 2015). "Actor Sung Hoon to tour 5 Asian countries as DJ". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 2016-08-31.
  7. ↑ "Sung Hoon cast in movie "Come Back to Busan Port"". Blog.AsianWiki.com. 18 May 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-31.


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